So Nike is now making green shoes to be a fashion statement about our carbon footprint.

I bet that the shoes are made of carbon like nearly every product man has ever produced including all clothing, whether natural or synthetic. Even when the good Lord (whether you think that is God, Gaia or Lady Chance) made life, carbon was used to do it, whether to make plants or animals. Even our DNA is made of carbon compounds, as is every part of every living thing.

If any element is to be declared sacred, it has to be carbon, considering the variety of its forms (allotropes), its great versatility and its adaptability. Carbon is used to make more compounds (especially organic compounds) than all other elements combined. We are not just made of carbon, but we actually eat it (carbo-hydrate) for energy. We depend on it to cook our food, to build our houses, to make our cars and other machinery (steel is made of iron and carbon) and to power them. If we need electrical insulation, we use a carbon product, and if we need a good conductor we also find it in a carbon product. We use carbon products to conduct heat or to insulate against heat. Not just life, but civilization, industrialization and modern communication networks could not exist without carbon just as our lives could not exist without the fourth most common element in the universe.

To demonize and make war on carbon is to demonize and make war on life itself. Since our very brains are not only made of carbon, but fuelled by carbon (mostly in the form of glucose), it is strange that thinking, conscious carbon should now turn around to make war on itself.

Our citizens as well as our school children have been so brainwashed by this anti-carbon/anti-human propaganda that many of them really think of carbon in terms of some ugly, black, toxic pollutant that now requires a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme. Neither carbon or carbon-dioxide is a pollutant, but they are absolutely as natural and as fundamental to life as oxygen and hydrogen. Carbon is not just a girl’s best friend (diamonds are pure carbon) but carbon is life’s best friend.

Thank God for carbon!

Bob Brinsmead,
Duranbah, NSW 2487
Australia.

Personally I look at the stupid notion of Blackout Night, in honour of the planet.

We left our caves, our sod houses of the past to enjoy modern homes. I enjoy the thought that if I’m sick and require an operation the hospital has electricity 24 hours per day, seven days per week so that the surgeon and his team can fix me or my loved ones. I enjoy the thought that at 7pm at night I can turn on a television and watch it, in the comfort of my single family dwelling home. I enjoy the thought that if I want a beverage I can go to my frost free fridge and grab a beer. I enjoy the thought that my employer has electricity and indoor plumbing so that I can defecate in the safety of my closed off cubicle.

These modern fools of Mother Earth and modern Environmentalism want to return to the yesteryears of cave dwelling pre-human existence. All I’ve ever read about pre-modern living, and that’s not all too long ago, just 100 years ago. Most men died before the age of 50 years. Children died by the thousands because of infections, and poor health quality. You were considered old when you were over 40!

Turning out the Lights glorifies stupidity, and glamorizes the progressive liberal mentality about the so called “global village”. You know what, its one village I don’t want to belong too. I’ll take living in a single dwelling home, with electricity, and my beer fridge powered by coal fired plants with modern precipitators and scrubbers installed in the gas path cleaning up the grime.

Today’s environmentalist aren’t cleaning up the stacks – they’re socialists who can’t get elected at the ballot box but are hell bent to destroy our western society so that we fit into their social activist world of stupidity and failure.

Less1leg
Niagara, Canada

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We are back from a visit to Melbourne for the Grand Prix. It is not carbon neutral.

After the race we spent 4 days driving along the coast to Adelaide. The weather was excellent with light sea breezes. There are many wind turbines on the nearby hills but alas the wind wasn’t reaching them and most days they were not turning. They look better than they work.

Bob Greenelsh
Brisbane Qld Australia

There was a moving scene at the end of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, where after the servants of the Dark Lord had murdered the great wizard Dumbledore, they triumphantly conjured the Dark Mark in the sky. The teachers and students of Hogwarts stood together and raised their lit wands.

For most of our existence, Homo sapiens have lived short and miserable lives in the dark, until great geniuses like Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla cast light spells to banish the darkness. Electricity is mankind’s most magical achievement – our light bringer, liberator and saviour. When Earth Hour came and the followers of the Dark Lord turned out their lights to celebrate the destruction of western civilisation, I turned mine on – to honour Franklin, Edison, Tesla and other real-life Dumbledores who created life as we know it today. Next Earth Hour, I urge all good people to think about what their lives would be like without the magic of electricity, and raise their wands to the sky.

Dub Zivkovic

Al Gore’s Lament

One thin December Moon
A floated hypothesis disappears
In scrambled shame.

The broker cries
The Market dies
They are the fools

Geoff Brown
Ourimbah NSW

I live in Texas, where it NEVER snows except maybe every three or four years. Though I will have to admit that “global warming” has really done a number on us because it has snowed SIX times this winter.

Thank gawd for global warming, because we would probably be BURIED under twenty feet of snow without it.

Yeah and if you believe that, I have some beach front property in Nebraska I want to sell you.

And I don’t mean that it is a “light dusting” of snowflakes. I mean it is huge globs of snow coming down.

Maybe if we are lucky [after all snow did shut down the government yesterday and today] it will only be a couple of inches.

Though to tell you the truth, it is already three inches deep.

Pat Wadley
11 Feb 2010
Texas, USA

PS. 13 Feb 2010:

It wasn’t three inches of snow, it is more than a foot.

Trees have fallen, some buildings have collapsed roofs and, despite the utility companies destroying a lot of gorgeous trees this summer, it has not stopped electrical lines from collapsing because of the weight of the snow. There are a lot of people without power.

It is gorgeous outside, as long as you are inside and looking out.

Pat

As of the end of January, the cumulative number of spotless days (days without sunspots) in the transition into solar cycle 24 now stands at 774. The number of spotless days is clamping down quickly. There were only 3 spotless days in January, 2010.

Solar minimums end rather abruptly. It appears very likely that the final number for this solar minimum will come close to 800. The transitions into the recent Solar Cycles (SC16-23) covering the past 7 decades averaged 362 cumulative spotless days. Therefore it is becoming obvious that the sun has undergone a state change.

The Average Magnetic Planetary Index (Ap index) is a proxy measurement for the intensity of solar magnetic activity as it alters the geomagnetic field on Earth. It has been referred to as the common yardstick for solar magnetic activity. An Ap index of “4” was the lowest recorded monthly value since measurements began in January 1932. In October and November 2009, this index record was broken with values of “3”. Then in December the index sunk even lower establishing a new record with a reading of “2”. Now in January of this year the Ap index is back up to “3”.

This solar minimum is rather unusual. If we define a period of quiet sun as those months that produced an Ap index of 6 or less and compare the total number of quiet months within each solar minimum, then the results would be:

Isn’t it interesting that the Northern Hemisphere is experiencing some of the coldest, snowiest weather in decades at the same time the sun’s magnetic field produced 25 quiet months? But history has shown that when the sun gets extremely quiet such as during the Maunder and Sporer Minimums, the world experiences great cold periods referred to as the Little Ice Ages.

Congratulations to Washington D.C., Baltimore and Philadelphia in smashing your all time seasonal snow record. Who will be next?

James Marusek

An ALP politician, Nick Champion, has written a piece designed to scare the electorate. Rudd is concentrating on frightening little children.

Champion is quoting “National Security and the Threat of Climate Change” by General Gordon R Sullivan (Ret.) which paints a picture of “food and water scarcity, rising sea levels, increased threat of national disasters like hurricanes, storms and flooding, and a rise in infectious diseases. These threats could strike in Asia and the Pacific and could affect millions of people.”

He then goes on to talk about a ”threat multiplier” which includes every nightmare from failed states to resource scarcity all of which he sees as threatening our defences and our fault unless we introduce an ETS which would easily fix all the world’s problems.

He tries to blame us for all the natural disasters of the earth and would then deprive poor countries of modern coal fired power stations and confine them to dung and windmills in the name of responsible government and our national security.

Janet Barlow
Sydney, Australia

The government is currently ‘thieving’ from farmers to demonstrate its green credentials.

Pretending they can control natural, cyclical, global warming.

To protect farmers from the government’s insanity, misrepresentations and fraud, a man is dying.

Property rights are fundamental to freedom.

The key is not CO2. The key is the vital use of fuels containing carbon. That is a massive lucrative tax base. And controlling energy controls modern society.

The government’s fraudulent desire for tax and control is exposed.

The ETS will hurt everyone. Stifling regulations will hurt everyone. Who’s next? You are, we are.

For what benefit? None. Regulating CO2 via theft of property without compensation is not protecting the environment, it is hurting the environment. It is undermining and discrediting science. It is an attack on the economy and an attack on freedom.

Attacks on freedom, a tax on freedom, a tax on life.

For a lie to take root and hurt us all, it only needs us as honest men and women to turn a blind eye.

Rudd-Wong misrepresentation of carbon: No science, no integrity, no benefit, no need – no way.

Send prayers for Peter and all farmers. Turn up the heat on politicians.

The real issue for farmers is an issue for all of us – property rights are a cornerstone of freedom.

Protect freedom.

Malcolm Roberts
Pullenvale QLD Australia

Senator Bob Brown insists all coal driven power stations should be closed by 2020.

I would suggest that the public be given an opportunity to see what it is like to be without those power stations, say for one day a week, every week, for say, a year.

As power stations cannot be switched on and off like lights in a home, it will be cheaper and better for the operators to simply cut off the power for 24 hours once a week.

Power stations will be compensated for their financial losses by the Greens, the Labor party and those true believers in the Liberal party.

This will give the public some basis on which to make judgments.

When the power goes off, there will be:

* No trains.
* No airline operations.
* No shops open.
* No food available.
* No coffee shops.
* No paper shop.
* No radio and or television transmission.
* No air conditioning.
* No electric blankets in winter.
* No refrigeration.
* No washing machines.
* No electrical appliance systems at all.
* No electronic communications systems.
* No sporting events.
* No 000 calls.
* No ambulance.
* No Fire Brigade.
* No medical operations.
* No X-rays.

I have been wondering whether the public would stand this for a year; especially over a non-existent problem. If Senator Brown gets his way they will have to endure it for ever.

Apart from hydro power, coal driven power is still the cheapest source of reliable power on earth.

Ronald Kitching
Rockhampton QLD Australia.